This is Life Unfiltered - The Podcast

Episode 16: Simple Mills Founder Kaitlin Smith On Maxing Out Her Credit Cards To Become A Leader In The Boutique Food Industry

This is Life Unfiltered is a weekly podcast by blogger @alexa_curtis, on all things social media, sex, & more! Alexa Curtis founded A Life in the Fashion Lane in 2011, and has since made her site into a full-time lifestyle website for young adults. She covers topics from social media and body image to sex and relationships. She also runs the nonprofit Media Impact and Navigation for Teens, a panel discussion in schools on social media and mental health. Read more about Alexa on http://www.alifeinthefashionlane.com/ and follow her on social media at @alexa_curtis.

5 years ago, the word paleo would have sounded like a word out
of a science booklet. Fast forward to 2018, and gluten-free and
paleo are as popular as Instagram. If you're not following a paleo
diet, your friends and family have most likely already told you how
much better you'll feel if you convert. Kaitlin Smith suffered with
gut problems for a while, before she started tracking almond flour
sales in grocery stores. As diets like Atkins and South Beach Diet
faded out, healthy lifestyle choices like paleo and crossfit hit
the market, hard. Instead of trying to become the next Quest or
Think Thin bar, Kaitlin started Simple Mills, a paleo food company,
that sells products like pumpkin muffin kits (made with coconut
sugar and almond flour), almond flour crunchy chocolate chip
cookies, and frosting made with organic ingredients and cane sugar.
If you've ever had a Simple Mills product, you know how freakin'
tasty the stuff is too. She's gone from a team of herself, to a
team of 27 people and growing. What started as a test in her
Charlotte, NC kitchen, has made Kaitlin a leader in the food
revolution, getting attention from places like Forbes, Whole Foods,
and Thrive Market. She was on Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2017, and
Simple Mills lives on shelves across America in over 1,200
stores!

Follow Kaitlin on social media at @simplemills and Alexa at
@alexa_curtis and @thisislifepodcast.

About the Podcast

Welcome to This is Life Unfiltered- a weekly podcast where teen influencer and blogger Alexa Curtis (@alexa_curtis) discusses all things social media, entertainment, entrepreneurship, mental health, and relationships. In 2011 Alexa founded her blog “A Life in the Fashion Lane,” at first using it as an outlet for her creativity and now inspiring young women everywhere to follow their dreams. Emphasizing the importance of mental health when using social media, Alexa also runs a nonprofit called Media Impact and Navigation for Teens. She hopes to use her platform and voice to raise awareness on the importance of living life unfiltered. In a world of photoshop and followers, this podcast seeks to inspire, educate, and dive into a new world where life is unfiltered- getting on a real level with our listeners to answer the craziest questions you never thought you could ask.
Read more about Alexa on http://www.alifeinthefashionlane.com/ and follow her on social media at @alexa_curtis.